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Henry Ustick Onderdonk
1789 - 1858 Person Name: Henry U. Onderdonk Alterer of "The Saviour kindly calls" in Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes Henry Ustick Onderdonk, Bishop of Pennsylvania, was born in New York, March 16, 1789, and educated at Columbia College, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, D.D. 1827. Having decided to devote his life to medicine, he studied first in London and then in Edinburgh, receiving his M.D. from that university in 1810. Returning to New York, he began to study theology under Bishop Hobart and was ordained in 1815. He was rector of St. Ann's, Brooklyn, until 1827 when, following a famous controversy, he was elected bishop coadjutor of Pennsylvania, becoming diocesan in 1836 upon the death of Bishop White. He, with W.A. Muhlenberg, q.v., was influential on the committee appointed by General Convention to prepare the so-called Prayer Book Collection, 1826. The two men were also instrumental in the publication of the volume known as Plain Music for the Book of Common Prayer, in 1854. These books served until the Hymnal of 1874. Although some metrical psalms were included in the Prayer Book Collection, the book marked the change in America from psalmody to hymnody. Onderdonk contributed nine hymns, of which only one survives. He also wrote several works on the episcopacy. His weakness for alcohol necessitated his resignation in 1844, but his life from then on was so exemplary that he was restored to his bishopric two years before his death, which occurred in Philadelphia on December 6, 1858.
--The Hymnal 1940 Companion
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Onderdonk, Henry Ustic, D.D., was born in New York, March 16, 1789, and educated at Columbia College. Taking Holy Orders, he was for some time Rector of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, New York. On the 27th Oct., 1827, he was consecrated at Philadelphia, and acted as Assistant Bishop of Philadelphia to Bishop White from that date to 1836, when upon the death of Bishop White, he entered upon the full charge of the diocese. He was suspended by the House of Bishops on the ground of intemperance in 1844, but restored in 1856. He died in Philadelphia, Dec. 6th, 1858. Without Bishop Doane's commanding talents, he yet rendered large and useful service to hymnody as author and compiler. He was a member (and apparently a leading one) of the Committee which compiled the American Prayer Book Collection of 1826 and was by far the largest contributor thereto. Apart from hymnwriting, so far as we know, he wrote nothing in verse.
His original hymns contributed to the Prayer Book Collection, 1826, are:—
1. Although the vine its fruit deny. Confidence in God. A paraphrase of Hab. iii. 17-19.
2. Blest be Thou, the God of Israel. Praise. A paraphrase of 1 Chron. xxix. 10-13.
3. How wondrous and great. Missions. A paraphrase of Rev. xv. 3, 4, being the Song of Moses and of the Lamb.
4. On Zion, and on Lebanon. Missions. Based on the text, Is. xxxv. 2.
5. Seek, my soul, the narrow gate. The Narrow Way. A paraphrase of St. Luke xiii. 24-27.
6. Sinner, rouse thee from thy sleep. Exhortation to awake out of sin. Based upon Eph. v. 14-17.
7. The Spirit in our hearts. Invitation. Based upon Rev. xxii. 17-20. This hymn may possibly have been suggested by Dr. Gibbons's "The Spirit in the word," which appeared in Hymns adapted to Divine Worship, 1769, p. 149. Bishop Onderdonk's hymn is in extensive use. Sometimes it is given as "The Spirit to our hearts."
8. Though I should seek to wash me clean. Need of the Mediator. This is not only used in full, but sts. iii.— v. are also used separately as "Ah, not like erring man is God."
9. When, Lord, to this our western land. Missions. This, and No. 4, were given in the Prayer Book Collection. "For Missions to the new Settlements in the United States."
In addition to these original hymns, Onderdonk contributed to the same collection the following adaptations from others:—
10. Ah, how shall fallen man? Redemption, This is I. Watts's "How should the sons of Adam's race?" (p. 539. i.), rewritten from the form given to it in the Scottish Translations and Paraphrases, 1781.
11. Heirs of unending life. Trust in God. Of this st. i. is by Onderdonk, and st. ii. and iii. are altered from Beddome's hymn "That we might walk with God." Sometimes given as "Heirs of immortal life."
12. The gentle Saviour calls. Christ accepting Children. This is altered from Doddridge's "See Israel's gentle Shepherd stand." It is sometimes given as "The Saviour kindly calls." [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Henry Ustick Onderdonk
William T. Moore
1832 - 1926 Person Name: W. T. Moore Author of "Thy kingdom, gracious Lord" in The Brethren Hymnody Moore, William Thomas. (Henry County, Kentucky, August 27, 1832--September 7, 1926, Orland, Florida) Disciple. A "cosmopolitan," he gained denominational fame for his liberal attitude toward the validity of non-immersionist forms of baptism during his tenure at minister of an independent congregation in London. Member of the five-man committee that produced the 1865 Christian Hymn Book (also appointed to a similar committee chosen to make the 1882 Christian Hymnal, Revised, but, being in London, was unable to serve); both books include his "Let every heart and tongue," "Listen to the gospel, telling," "Love of God, all love excelling," "O that I had wings like a dove," and "Thy kingdom, gracious Lord." He was the author of Comprehensive History of the Disciples of Christ (1909).
--George Brandon, DNAH Archives
William T. Moore
Thomas Davis
1804 - 1887 Person Name: Thomas Davis, 1804-1887 Author of "Baptized Into The Name" in The Cyber Hymnal Davis, Thomas, M.A., son of Dr. H. F. Davis, Rector of All Saints, Worcester, and of Pendock, Worcestershire, was born Feb. 15, 1804. He was educated for the law, and practised as a solicitor for two years. He then entered Queen's College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1833, and M.A. in 1837. On taking Holy Orders he became Curate of All Saints, Worcester. In 1839 he was preferred as Incumbent of Roundhay, Leeds. Mr. Davis's works, in which his hymns appeared, are:—
(1) Devotional Verse for a Month, 1855; (2) Songs for the Suffering, 1859; (3) The Family Hymnal, 1860; (4) Hymns, Old and New, for Church and Home, and for travel by Land or Sea; consisting of 223 selected, and 260 Original Hymns, Lond., Longmans, 1864; and (5) Annus Sanctus; or, Aids to Holiness in Verse for every day in the Year, 1877. (6) Help Homewards in Verse for Every Day in the Year, 1883. The hymns given in the earlier of these works are generally repeated in the later.
Of Mr. Davis's hymns the best Known are "O Paradise Eternal"; "Holiest, holiest, hearken in love"; "’Tis sweet on earth to wake at morn"; "Let every voice for praise awake"; and "Baptized into the Name." Many of Mr. Davis's hymns are of considerable merit, and his works should be consulted by all hymn-book compilers. The "selected " hymns in his Hymns Old & New are marked, the rest are original. From his various works the following hymns are in common use outside of his Hymns Old and New in addition to those named and others, which are annotated under their respective first lines:—
i. From Devotional Verse for a Month, 1855.
1. Come, Holy Spirit, come, Mercies revealing. Whitsuntide.
2. Dear is the eye of earthly love. The loneliness of Jesus.
3. Heavy and dark the clouds o'erhung. Good Friday.
4. I will not mourn my weakness, Lord. Affliction.
ii. From the Family Hymnal, 1860.
5. Shall I fear, O earth, thy bosom? Easter.
6. Sing, ye seraphs, in the sky. Universal Praise.
iii. From Hymns Old and New, 1864.
7. Day by day and year by year. Old and New Year.
8. Does one small voice within the soul? Conscience.
9. Faith alone breathes calm devotion. The Calm of Faith.
10. Father, vouchsafe us grace divine. Morning.
11. Great Father of our race. God the Father.
12. How kind our Father's voice. Morning.
13. I thank Thee, Lord, for every night. Morning.
14. In holy contemplation, Give me, &c. After a Bad Harvest.
15. Let every voice for praise awake. God is Love.
16. Lord, send Thy Spirit from above. For an Increase of Charity.
17. My Father kept me through the night. Morning.
18. Our God is love, O sweetly sing. God is Love.
19. The floods lift up their waves, O God. For use at Sea.
20. The Lord our God is King. God the King Eternal.
21. To all Thy servants who this day. Holy Communion.
22. To Thine own peaceful skies. Ascension.
23. What though fields of earth have yielded. After a Bad Harvest.
iv. From Annus Sanctus, 1877.
24. Christian, be thou content. Quinquagesima Sunday.
25. Keep Thou my heart that it may ne'er. Slow to Wrath.
26. More light, more life, more love. Light, Life and Love desired.
27. Unworthy though I be. Divine Guidance desired.
28. Why comes this fragrance on the summer breeze? God is Love.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Davis, Thomas, M.A., p. 281, ii. Died at Roundhay, Nov. 11, 1887. Another of his hymns from his Devotional Verse, &c, 1855, "Two temples doth Jehovah prize" (The Temple of the Body), is also in common use. There are 23 of his hymns in Soden's Universal Hymn Book, 1885.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Thomas Davis
Edward G. Marsh
1783 - 1862 Person Name: Marsh Author of "God is in Judah known" in African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book Marsh, Edward Garrard, M.A. was born in 1783, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, (B.A. 1804.) He was appointed Vicar of Aylesford in 1841, having previously been Minister of Hampstead Chapel. His Sixty Psalms and Hymns, 1st set, were published in 1823. The entire Book of Psalms was published in 1832. The 4th edition of his Psalms & Hymns. (210 in all) was published by Seeley's, London, 1862. Mr. Marsh died Sept. 20, 1862. [No. 230.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Edward G. Marsh
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